John F. Enders Lectureship

2014 Featured Lecturer

Roger I. Glass, MD, PhD, FIDSA

Dr. Glass is the director of the Fogarty International Center and associate director for Global Health at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Glass graduated from Harvard College in 1967, received a Fulbright Fellowship to study at the University of Buenos Aires in 1967, and received his MD from Harvard Medical School and his MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1972. After completing training in Internal Medicine at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City, he joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 1977 as an Epidemic Intelligence Officer assigned to the Environmental Hazards Branch. He was a scientist at the International Center for Diarrheal Disease Research in Bangladesh from 1979 to 1983 and returned to Sweden, where he received his doctorate from the University of Goteborg. In 1984, he joined the NIH Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, where he worked on the molecular biology of rotavirus. In 1986, Dr. Glass returned to CDC to become chief of the Viral Gastroenteritis Unit at the National Center for Infectious Diseases.